NON-FICTION: Humble History

The Book.* The red brick schoolhouse, copy books, McGuffey's readers;
Rockefeller's millions and Roosevelt's teeth; Langley and the Wright
Brothers building flimsy miracles; Hill and Harriman fighting for a
railroad; automobiles and oil wells and Andrew Carnegie, "The
Octopus," The Jungle and dirty canned meat; "The Curfew Shall
Not Ring Tonight," "Old Dan Tucker," "Buffalo
Gals" and "The Man with the Hoe." These are a few of the
elements of history in the first years of the century; they are a few
of the elements...